COURT OF CASSATION 20 JANUARY 1900. LAKAH & Co. v. STATE-REPRESENTATIVE AND ABDUL GANI SAID (C. Cr. Pr. Art. 220). Cassation—Substantial ground of invalidity—Reasons of judgment—Superfluous and erroneous statements in judgment—Civil plaintiff in criminal proceedings (Partie civile). When a judgment in criminal proceedings states that the accused is not proved to have committed the act upon which the charge is based, the fact that the judgment further contains the erroneous statement, that such an act does not constitute a legal offence, is not a substantial ground of invalidity within the meaning of Art. 220 (3°) C. Cr. Pr., and does not therefore afford a ground for cassation. As regards the claim of a party intervening as civil plaintiff (partie civile), a declaration, that the accused is not proved to have committed the act in question, constitutes a sufficient statement of the reasons of a judgment dismissing such claim.